Deteriorating standard of our civil service
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
A report under the title, "18th BCS officers got zero in English", recently published in a national English daily is not necessarily a complaint against the Public Service Commission (PSC). It only reflects the poor quality of education of those who are competing for civil service jobs.
Their performance in written examination in a subject like English, widely acclaimed as a vital international language, is indeed deplorable. It also reveals the standard of English language courses in our academic institutions.
In most cases, there is no qualified English teacher right from the primary level of our education system. How will our future civil servants in responsible positions serve the nation if they cannot communicate in English in this era of globalisation and also when the government wants the country to move progressively towards "Digital Bangladesh"?
Is it possible to go ahead with such ill-equipped manpower among our elite public servants? With a poor level of proficiency in English it will be impossible to communicate with comparable levels of their counterparts in different countries of the world.
It is imperative that have a strong institutional arrangement to improve the present civil service structure, befitting the needs of the time.
We would like to request the responsible functionaries of the government to do something at the earliest to help address the problem effectively. They should also investigate to what extent the quality of recruitment for civil service jobs has been compromised. Actions must be taken against those who got appointment through unfair means in BCS examinations in the recent past.
Sultana Ferdousi Rosy
Sweet Heaven, Jheeltuli
Faridpur
E-mail: sultanaferdousi@ymail.com
Their performance in written examination in a subject like English, widely acclaimed as a vital international language, is indeed deplorable. It also reveals the standard of English language courses in our academic institutions.
In most cases, there is no qualified English teacher right from the primary level of our education system. How will our future civil servants in responsible positions serve the nation if they cannot communicate in English in this era of globalisation and also when the government wants the country to move progressively towards "Digital Bangladesh"?
Is it possible to go ahead with such ill-equipped manpower among our elite public servants? With a poor level of proficiency in English it will be impossible to communicate with comparable levels of their counterparts in different countries of the world.
It is imperative that have a strong institutional arrangement to improve the present civil service structure, befitting the needs of the time.
We would like to request the responsible functionaries of the government to do something at the earliest to help address the problem effectively. They should also investigate to what extent the quality of recruitment for civil service jobs has been compromised. Actions must be taken against those who got appointment through unfair means in BCS examinations in the recent past.
Sultana Ferdousi Rosy
Sweet Heaven, Jheeltuli
Faridpur
E-mail: sultanaferdousi@ymail.com